Re: [gentoo-user] How to suppress starting kmail with KDE 4.3.2

2009-10-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 13 Oktober 2009, Jim Cunning wrote: > I recently upgraded to KDE 4.3.x, now at 4.3.2. With KDE 3.5.10 I could > have kontact running on logout and it would be restarted the next time I > logged in. With KDE 4.3.x, kontact is started, but so is kmail in a > separate window. I change

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use RAM

2009-10-12 Thread KH
Dale schrieb: KH wrote: Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb: Greets, gentoo-users, as I ordered myself an upgrade from 4 to 8 gigs of RAM for my main workstation, just because it's rather cheap now and I have good use for the "old" 4 gigs I wonder what to do with those shiny new additional 4 gigs. O

[gentoo-user] How to suppress starting kmail with KDE 4.3.2

2009-10-12 Thread Jim Cunning
I recently upgraded to KDE 4.3.x, now at 4.3.2. With KDE 3.5.10 I could have kontact running on logout and it would be restarted the next time I logged in. With KDE 4.3.x, kontact is started, but so is kmail in a separate window. I changed my default mail application to "kontact", but I canno

[gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x & xorg-1.6?

2009-10-12 Thread Mark Knecht
Solved/ On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> Hi, >>   Will that combination work? >> >>   I'm having trouble finding the right combination of kernel, >> nvidia-driver and xorg-server for a remote machine. >> >>   The machine

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong?

2009-10-12 Thread Denis
> Have you `emerge -e world` yet? > > Stroller. I have that going now. I offloaded OpenOffice to shorten the duration of the rebuild, and I don't have KDE or Gnome - just fluxbox. So it should finish by sometime tomorrow, probably. There are 604 packages total. Instead of trying to rebuild X-r

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong?

2009-10-12 Thread Stroller
On 13 Oct 2009, at 01:25, Denis wrote: I tried a few things today: ... Neither of these things helped. Alan's hypothesis sounds plausible, but I don't even know which package to point fingers at! Have you `emerge -e world` yet? Stroller.

[gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x & xorg-1.6?

2009-10-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >   Will that combination work? > >   I'm having trouble finding the right combination of kernel, > nvidia-driver and xorg-server for a remote machine. > >   The machine was running xorg-server-1.5 with 2.6.29-gentoo-r4 and > nvidia-drivers

[gentoo-user] Re: What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

2009-10-12 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-10-13, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Nope, just a bunch of bored geeks showing off with clever > facts and silly (but true) observations. We do this about once > a month. > > Tomorrow morning most of us will go back to trying to figure > out how to get x.org to work everywhere, either with or >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong?

2009-10-12 Thread Dale
Denis wrote: > I tried a few things today: > > 1) rebuilt all x11-libs, media-libs, and anything I could think of > that would be related to x11-libs (such as gtk+, qt...) > > 2) downgraded to xorg-server-1.5 > > Neither of these things helped. Alan's hypothesis sounds plausible, > but I don't e

[gentoo-user] Nvidia GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x & xorg-1.6?

2009-10-12 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Will that combination work? I'm having trouble finding the right combination of kernel, nvidia-driver and xorg-server for a remote machine. The machine was running xorg-server-1.5 with 2.6.29-gentoo-r4 and nvidia-drivers-96.43.09. So far when I try to use the newer xorg-server-1.6 it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

2009-10-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 13 October 2009 01:28:13 Neal Hogan wrote: > >> If I tell you "ball" is the objective case and "the boy" is > >> the subjective case, can you see where I'm going? It's still > >> the boy that kicked the ball but the position denotes > >> emphasis, not case. > > > > Ah, yes I see. So you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong?

2009-10-12 Thread Denis
I tried a few things today: 1) rebuilt all x11-libs, media-libs, and anything I could think of that would be related to x11-libs (such as gtk+, qt...) 2) downgraded to xorg-server-1.5 Neither of these things helped. Alan's hypothesis sounds plausible, but I don't even know which package to po

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

2009-10-12 Thread Neal Hogan
>> >> If I tell you "ball" is the objective case and "the boy" is >> the subjective case, can you see where I'm going? It's still >> the boy that kicked the ball but the position denotes >> emphasis, not case. > > Ah, yes I see.  So you can then use position to imply whether > the statement is atte

[gentoo-user] Re: What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

2009-10-12 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-10-12, Alan McKinnon wrote: > I fully understand where you're coming from, English is my > native tongue too, and I deal with positionality (is that a > word?) fluently. But I also see it's flaws, some of them are > quite gross. You have no way to denote emphasis other than by > saying so

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use RAM

2009-10-12 Thread Dale
KH wrote: > Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb: >> Greets, gentoo-users, >> >> as I ordered myself an upgrade from 4 to 8 gigs of RAM for my main >> workstation, just because it's rather cheap now and I have good use for >> the "old" 4 gigs I wonder what to do with those shiny new additional >> 4 gigs. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong?

2009-10-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 13 October 2009 00:33:02 Brandon Vargo wrote: > > Basically, the only thing that triggers the crash is if I hold down > > the mouse button and drag the scrollbar UP right after I drag it DOWN. > > Dragging it down doesn't seem to make any difference by itself and > > hasn't crashed the

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use RAM

2009-10-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 13 October 2009 00:09:23 KH wrote: > > I will give my virtual machines more RAM to improve their performance, > > yes, this is maybe the main reason for me to upgrade RAM. > > > > But are there any other things I might forget? > > > > Are there any creative non-ricer ways to really mak

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

2009-10-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 12 October 2009 23:22:29 Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2009-10-12, Alan McKinnon wrote: [snip] > > "The boy kicked the ball." The subject is boy and the only way > > to tell is the it's before the verb. Which is a stupid idea > > actually. > > It's probably just a result of my having grow

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong?

2009-10-12 Thread Brandon Vargo
On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 03:18 -0400, Denis wrote: > Brandon, > > Thank you for helping me along here! > > Here is the output of "ldd Mathematica": > > linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb8042000) > libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0xb800c000) > libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use RAM

2009-10-12 Thread KH
Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb: Greets, gentoo-users, as I ordered myself an upgrade from 4 to 8 gigs of RAM for my main workstation, just because it's rather cheap now and I have good use for the "old" 4 gigs I wonder what to do with those shiny new additional 4 gigs. OK, linux uses it for IO-ca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

2009-10-12 Thread KH
Grant Edwards schrieb: [snip] It's the same in mathematics for many/most operators i - j and j - i aren't the same thing. The position of the variable relative to the operator tells you want's going on. While a + b is equal to b + a, that's a property of the particular operator. OK, this is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how to use RAM

2009-10-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Nikos Chantziaras schrieb: > One thing I did after my RAM upgrade was to put: > > vm.swappiness = 30 > > in /etc/sysctl.conf to make the kernel use less swap. (The default > swappiness is 60.) Don't use values lower than 20 though, and better > don't disable swap completely; it's marginal, b

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem with gethostname() returning incorrect value

2009-10-12 Thread Lie Ryan
Xavier Parizet wrote: > Lie Ryan a écrit : >> Hi, >> >> [SNIP] >> >> Extra information: >> >> lier...@lieryan ~/Desktop/pythontrunk/trunk $ /lib/libc.so.6 > > Here the output is clear : lieryan is your machine hostname as well as your > username... So check your /etc/hosts and either edit the line

[gentoo-user] Re: how to use RAM

2009-10-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/12/2009 11:44 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Greets, gentoo-users, as I ordered myself an upgrade from 4 to 8 gigs of RAM for my main workstation, just because it's rather cheap now and I have good use for the "old" 4 gigs I wonder what to do with those shiny new additional 4 gigs. OK,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

2009-10-12 Thread Arttu V.
On 10/12/09, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 12 October 2009 21:31:35 Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2009-10-12, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> > One day an idiot refused to pay. So he tried to drive off >> > anyway. In a brand new Mercedes. Caused about ZAR15,000 damage >> > to his wheel arches rather tha

[gentoo-user] Re: What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

2009-10-12 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-10-12, Alan McKinnon wrote: > The subjective|objective case means the form of the word > changes depending if it's the subject or object in the > sentence. English does this with word position. Pretty much only the personal pronouns have retained different objective/subjective cases (I/m

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

2009-10-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 12 Oktober 2009, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 12 October 2009 20:58:14 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > At least we mostly got rid of the whole gender mess and only > > > have to worry about objective/subjective case for a few cases. > > > > which makes english a horrible, horrible

[gentoo-user] how to use RAM

2009-10-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Greets, gentoo-users, as I ordered myself an upgrade from 4 to 8 gigs of RAM for my main workstation, just because it's rather cheap now and I have good use for the "old" 4 gigs I wonder what to do with those shiny new additional 4 gigs. OK, linux uses it for IO-caching, yep ... I have some ram

Re: [gentoo-user] What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

2009-10-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 12 October 2009 22:13:26 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday 11 October 2009 22:18:04 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > English is a mess. As a language it's worse than a pig's breakfast and > > makes almost no sense whatsoever to non-native speakers. Mind you, it > > makes about as much sense to na

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

2009-10-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 12 October 2009 21:31:35 Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2009-10-12, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > One day an idiot refused to pay. So he tried to drive off > > anyway. In a brand new Mercedes. Caused about ZAR15,000 damage > > to his wheel arches rather than admit he was wrong and cough > > up ZAR

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

2009-10-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 12 October 2009 22:13:53 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 12 October 2009 20:37:07 Grant Edwards wrote: > > At least we mostly got rid of the whole gender mess and only > > have to worry about objective/subjective case for a few cases. > > I don't understand either of these two statemen

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

2009-10-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 12 October 2009 21:58:14 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Montag 12 Oktober 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2009-10-11, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > English is a mess. As a language it's worse than a pig's > > > breakfast and makes almost no sense whatsoever to non-native > > > speakers.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

2009-10-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 12 October 2009 20:58:14 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > At least we mostly got rid of the whole gender mess and only > > have to worry about objective/subjective case for a few cases. > > which makes english a horrible, horrible language. Which does? Getting rid of the mess, or having

Re: [gentoo-user] What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

2009-10-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 11 October 2009 22:18:04 Alan McKinnon wrote: > English is a mess. As a language it's worse than a pig's breakfast and > makes almost no sense whatsoever to non-native speakers. Mind you, it makes > about as much sense to native speakers as well :-) Even allowing for the smiley, this is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

2009-10-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 12 October 2009 20:37:07 Grant Edwards wrote: > At least we mostly got rid of the whole gender mess and only > have to worry about objective/subjective case for a few cases. I don't understand either of these two statements. -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

2009-10-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 12 Oktober 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2009-10-11, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > English is a mess. As a language it's worse than a pig's > > breakfast and makes almost no sense whatsoever to non-native > > speakers. Mind you, it makes about as much sense to native > > speakers as well :-

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Blank screen after Xorg update

2009-10-12 Thread Alex Schuster
I wrote: > walt writes: > > What I do when faced with an X problem is to type "X" at a console > > prompt and see if the bare X server starts up normally, i.e. with the > > black-and- white background pattern and the x-cursor. That at least > > will separate the kde bugs from the xorg bugs. > >

[gentoo-user] Re: What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

2009-10-12 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-10-11, Alan McKinnon wrote: > English is a mess. As a language it's worse than a pig's > breakfast and makes almost no sense whatsoever to non-native > speakers. Mind you, it makes about as much sense to native > speakers as well :-) I had to take 5 years of Latin study in > high school t

[gentoo-user] Re: What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

2009-10-12 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-10-12, Alan McKinnon wrote: > One day an idiot refused to pay. So he tried to drive off > anyway. In a brand new Mercedes. Caused about ZAR15,000 damage > to his wheel arches rather than admit he was wrong and cough > up ZAR200 :-) > > Darwin gets them all in the end :-) Unforutunately,

Re: [gentoo-user] What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

2009-10-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 12 October 2009 21:03:48 pk wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > What he didn't know is that my colleague works in Security. He's the > > firewall admin, the VPN admin, the packeteer admin and all sorts of other > > admins too. It real funny, every day Mr. Special parks in the disabled > > b

Re: [gentoo-user] What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

2009-10-12 Thread Neil Walker
Dale wrote: > Living on disability sucks, So why do you? > If the skin doesn't bother them, the income part does. You really don't have to be living like that if you don't want to. It's entirely your choice. Drop me an email at neil-at-neiljw.net if you want to change things. :) Be lucky, Neil

Re: [gentoo-user] What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

2009-10-12 Thread pk
Alan McKinnon wrote: > What he didn't know is that my colleague works in Security. He's the firewall > admin, the VPN admin, the packeteer admin and all sorts of other admins too. > It real funny, every day Mr. Special parks in the disabled bay, his internet > doesn't work. BOFH![1] ;-) [

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] mms protocol ???

2009-10-12 Thread Brahim LARCHET
2009/10/10 Albert Hopkins > On Sat, 2009-10-10 at 07:06 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > I want to download a file with an url like this: > > > > mms:/// > > > > Directly cliking the link/url in firefox does not work. > > > > Is there any tool, with which I cann access that file? > > $ gc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: alsa-driver: "Unknown symbol in module" error

2009-10-12 Thread Grant
>>> My Dell Vostro 1320 doesn't mute the external speakers when headphones >>> are plugged in.  These guys seem to have fixed the problem by >>> upgrading to the latest version of alsa-driver... >> >> I can confirm that the problem is fixed in 2.6.31-gentoo-r2, but I'd >> really like to keep my har

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo installation problem.

2009-10-12 Thread igwasm
- Original Message - From: "walt" To: Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 7:52 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo installation problem. On 10/12/2009 08:43 AM, igwasm wrote: Repeat. Hi. I try to install "DVD gentoo 10.0" and happens this: "scanning for ata_piix" and installation freeze

[gentoo-user] Re: alsa-driver: "Unknown symbol in module" error

2009-10-12 Thread walt
On 10/12/2009 08:54 AM, Grant wrote: >> My Dell Vostro 1320 doesn't mute the external speakers when headphones >> are plugged in. These guys seem to have fixed the problem by >> upgrading to the latest version of alsa-driver... > > I can confirm that the problem is fixed in 2.6.31-gentoo-r2, but

Re: [gentoo-user] What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

2009-10-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 12 October 2009 18:01:49 Dale wrote: > > All disabled folks have funny stories to relate :-) > > > > I work at an ISP and there's 1 (yes, just one) disabled bay on our > > entire parking level. A disabled colleague uses it but there's a special > > kind of idiot in the building that thin

Re: [gentoo-user] What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

2009-10-12 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 12 October 2009 12:13:19 Dale wrote: > >> Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >>> On Monday 12 October 2009 10:09:52 Dale wrote: >>> I'm a kid at heart. LOL Because of health issues, I feel about 70 or so. http://psoriasis.org I have most of the thi

[gentoo-user] xfce4 tray icon problems

2009-10-12 Thread Grant
I'm having a problem with xfce4 tray icons all of a sudden. The wicd-client icon won't show up, even though the binary executes in a terminal without error. I've tried restarting wicd and rebooting. The twinkle icon shows up in the center of the screen instead of the tray, and it has its own pane

[gentoo-user] Re: alsa-driver: "Unknown symbol in module" error

2009-10-12 Thread Grant
> My Dell Vostro 1320 doesn't mute the external speakers when headphones > are plugged in.  These guys seem to have fixed the problem by > upgrading to the latest version of alsa-driver, alsa-lib, and > alsa-utils: > > http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=27987&p=168950 > > I'm on the l

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo installation problem.

2009-10-12 Thread walt
On 10/12/2009 08:43 AM, igwasm wrote: > Repeat. > Hi. I try to install "DVD gentoo 10.0" and happens this: "scanning for > ata_piix" and installation freeze. Motherboard Asus P4P800SE. My problem > is sata drive. If i remove it than installation runs good. But I want to > install on sata drive. ge

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo installation problem.

2009-10-12 Thread igwasm
Repeat. Hi. I try to install "DVD gentoo 10.0" and happens this: "scanning for ata_piix" and installation freeze. Motherboard Asus P4P800SE. My problem is sata drive. If i remove it than installation runs good. But I want to install on sata drive. - Original Message - From: "Justin

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome "Edit Menus"

2009-10-12 Thread dhk
Anton Bobov wrote: > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:13:04 -0400, dhk wrote: >> After the last update when I got Gnome 2.26 Most everything the the main >> application menu was gone. I right clicked on the main app panel and >> selected "Edit Menus" and after making a few changes I pressed "Revert" >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with gethostname() returning incorrect value

2009-10-12 Thread Xavier Parizet
Lie Ryan a écrit : > Hi, > > [SNIP] > > Extra information: > > lier...@lieryan ~/Desktop/pythontrunk/trunk $ /lib/libc.so.6 Here the output is clear : lieryan is your machine hostname as well as your username... So check your /etc/hosts and either edit the line containing 127.0.0.1 like this: 127

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome "Edit Menus"

2009-10-12 Thread Anton Bobov
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:13:04 -0400, dhk wrote: > After the last update when I got Gnome 2.26 Most everything the the main > application menu was gone. I right clicked on the main app panel and > selected "Edit Menus" and after making a few changes I pressed "Revert" > and now "Edit Menus" does

Re: [gentoo-user] What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

2009-10-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 12 October 2009 12:13:19 Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Monday 12 October 2009 10:09:52 Dale wrote: > >> I'm a kid at heart. LOL Because of health issues, I feel about 70 or > >> so. http://psoriasis.org I have most of the things that go with it. > >> Going to the Dr is a b

[gentoo-user] Gnome "Edit Menus"

2009-10-12 Thread dhk
After the last update when I got Gnome 2.26 Most everything the the main application menu was gone. I right clicked on the main app panel and selected "Edit Menus" and after making a few changes I pressed "Revert" and now "Edit Menus" doesn't work at all. The window doesn't even come up. How can

[gentoo-user] Problem with gethostname() returning incorrect value

2009-10-12 Thread Lie Ryan
Hi, First, sorry if this is not the correct list. Second, the background story... I was tracking a problem that I have always ignored when updating python on my Gentoo laptop. The problem is that emerge-ing python always fail when FEATURES="test" is on. Usually, I would just turn FEATURES="test"

Re: [gentoo-user] Migration to baselayout2 / openrc

2009-10-12 Thread Momesso Andrea
On Monday 12 October 2009 07:33:33 Eray Aslan wrote: > On 10.10.2009 13:01, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > On gentoo web I found this: 2. > > Migration to OpenRC > > Migration to OpenRC is fairly straightforward; it will be pulled in > > as part of your regular upgrade process by your packag

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mplayer configure weirdness

2009-10-12 Thread Dirk Uys
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Igor Nemilentsev wrote: > On 06-10-2009, Dirk Uys wrote: > > I was busy doing a system upgrade which failed halfway (due to the libxcb > > upgrade thing). This left my mplayer broken since ffmpeg was upgraded i > > guess. No problem, just emerge mplayer again. Tri

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo installation problem.

2009-10-12 Thread igwasm
Thanks. My problem seems in sata drive. If i remove it than installation runs good. - Original Message - From: "Justin" To: Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 12:06 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo installation problem.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Blank screen after Xorg update

2009-10-12 Thread Alex Schuster
walt writes: > On 10/11/2009 02:30 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: > > I wrote: > >> And then... we will see. Come on, Gentoo, surprise me, and give me a > >> running KDE 4.3 desktop with X and OpenGL and mouse and keyboard. That > >> would be great. > > > > And what I got may possibly be all of that, b

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: commands to show where a package is installed?

2009-10-12 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Montag, 12. Oktober 2009 schrieb Dale: > > Interesting. I tried it just out of interest and I got two: > > > > $ equery b q > > [ Searching for file(s) q in *... ] > > app-portage/portage-utils-0.1.29 (/usr/bin/q) > > sys-libs/ncurses-5.6-r2 (/usr/share/terminfo/q) > > $ > > Hmmm, two apparentl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: commands to show where a package is installed?

2009-10-12 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday 11 October 2009 22:23:11 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > >>> I knew how to do it but I thought it would return a lot of hits from >>> anything containing the letter "q". Later on when I had a little bit of >>> time to sit here, I tried it. It only returned the one re

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: commands to show where a package is installed?

2009-10-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 12 October 2009 11:11:06 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday 11 October 2009 22:23:11 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > I knew how to do it but I thought it would return a lot of hits from > > > anything containing the letter "q". Later on when I had a little bit > > > of time to sit here, I trie

Re: [gentoo-user] What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

2009-10-12 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 12 October 2009 10:09:52 Dale wrote: > >> I'm a kid at heart. LOL Because of health issues, I feel about 70 or >> so. http://psoriasis.org I have most of the things that go with it. >> Going to the Dr is a battle. I have to sign a AMA to go home. They >> u

Re: [gentoo-user] Syntax for masking kde:4?

2009-10-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 12 October 2009 11:30:22 Peter Humphrey wrote: > > OT: I really like kde:4 myself, but it's such a different product to > > kde:3.5 that I honestly feel it's official name should have been kde4. If > > the kde devs had done that, your issue would simply never have happened. > > This versi

Re: [gentoo-user] Syntax for masking kde:4?

2009-10-12 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday 11 October 2009 22:30:29 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > >> Have you considered simply not installing them at all? If you don't want >> apache, cups, syslog-ng and bind you don't take any special steps, you >> simply don't emerge them. >> > > No, but those are sin

Re: [gentoo-user] What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

2009-10-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 12 October 2009 10:09:52 Dale wrote: > I'm a kid at heart. LOL Because of health issues, I feel about 70 or > so. http://psoriasis.org I have most of the things that go with it. > Going to the Dr is a battle. I have to sign a AMA to go home. They > usually bring that after the Dr s

Re: [gentoo-user] What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

2009-10-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 11 October 2009 21:40:31 Peter Ruskin wrote: > I'm 71 ... is that old enough? Too much for me - I'm only 66. Working on it though. -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] Syntax for masking kde:4?

2009-10-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 11 October 2009 22:30:29 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Have you considered simply not installing them at all? If you don't want > apache, cups, syslog-ng and bind you don't take any special steps, you > simply don't emerge them. No, but those are single packages, more or less. KDE is hundreds

Re: [gentoo-user] What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

2009-10-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 11 October 2009 20:21:29 Philip Webb wrote: > 091011 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > Paket = packet ; Paket = package > > Oh dear ! -- English calls such words 'false friends' ! > My German-English dictionary (Langenscheidt) suggests E 'package' = G > 'Pack', while E 'packet' = G 'kleines

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: commands to show where a package is installed?

2009-10-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 11 October 2009 22:23:11 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I knew how to do it but I thought it would return a lot of hits from > > anything containing the letter "q". Later on when I had a little bit of > > time to sit here, I tried it. It only returned the one result. Still > > sort of surpr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Syntax for masking kde:4?

2009-10-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 11 October 2009 20:16:24 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Portage unfortunately doesn't allow wildcards in the package name of > atoms. But you can install KDE4 on one machine and then use: > >qlist -ISLC kde-base/*:4.3 > > to generate a list to put in package.mask in the machines you don

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers + DRM anybody?

2009-10-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 12 Oktober 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 12 Oct, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Montag 12 Oktober 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> has anybody had success with ati-drivers + DRM ? > >> > >> (Without DRM ,i.e. 2.6.31-gentoo-r2 w/o DRM + > >> x11-drivers/ati-drivers-

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers + DRM anybody?

2009-10-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12 Oct, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Montag 12 Oktober 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> Hi, >> >> has anybody had success with ati-drivers + DRM ? >> >> (Without DRM ,i.e. 2.6.31-gentoo-r2 w/o DRM + >> x11-drivers/ati-drivers-9.9-r2 works just fine.) >> >> I have the 2.6.31-r2 kernel wit

Re: [gentoo-user] Migration to baselayout2 / openrc

2009-10-12 Thread Dale
Eray Aslan wrote: > On 10.10.2009 13:01, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > >> On gentoo web I found this: 2. >> Migration to OpenRC >> Migration to OpenRC is fairly straightforward; it will be pulled in >> as part of your regular upgrade process by your package manager. >> > > PPP star

Re: [gentoo-user] What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

2009-10-12 Thread Dale
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Sonntag 11 Oktober 2009, Dale wrote: > >> Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >>> On Sunday 11 October 2009 22:40:31 Peter Ruskin wrote: >>> On Sunday 11 October 2009, KH wrote: > KH schrieb: > >> Peter Humphrey schrieb:

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers + DRM anybody?

2009-10-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 12 Oktober 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > has anybody had success with ati-drivers + DRM ? > > (Without DRM ,i.e. 2.6.31-gentoo-r2 w/o DRM + > x11-drivers/ati-drivers-9.9-r2 works just fine.) > > I have the 2.6.31-r2 kernel with > devices-drivers/Graphic support/Direct Rend

[gentoo-user] ati-drivers + DRM anybody?

2009-10-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, has anybody had success with ati-drivers + DRM ? (Without DRM ,i.e. 2.6.31-gentoo-r2 w/o DRM + x11-drivers/ati-drivers-9.9-r2 works just fine.) I have the 2.6.31-r2 kernel with devices-drivers/Graphic support/Direct Rendering Manager/ATI Radeon (I have an ATI Radeon HD 3300 onboard gr

Re: [gentoo-user] my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong?

2009-10-12 Thread Dale
Denis wrote: >> He may also want to ask the question "Do I *really* need acroread?" and get >> the full complete answer. In my experience very few people actually need all >> the features in acroread, and okular|evince are quite adequate >> > > I am flexible on acroread, but acroread doesn't c

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong?

2009-10-12 Thread Denis
Brandon, Thank you for helping me along here! Here is the output of "ldd Mathematica": linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb8042000) libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0xb800c000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7ff4000) librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0xb7feb000)